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Nucleic Acid Testing of Organ Donors: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full?
Author(s) -
Ison M. G.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of transplantation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.89
H-Index - 188
eISSN - 1600-6143
pISSN - 1600-6135
DOI - 10.1111/ajt.13289
Subject(s) - medicine , nat , transmission (telecommunications) , disease transmission , nucleic acid , organ transplantation , intensive care medicine , immunology , virology , transplantation , genetics , biology , computer network , computer science , electrical engineering , engineering
Reports of HCV transmission from three HCV NAT‐negative donors provide important insight into the understanding of the limits of donor testing, the need to refine current definitions of increased risk donors, and how essential it is to perform early posttransplant screening on recipients of organs from donors with a recognized risk of disease transmission. See article by Suryaprasad et al on page 1827 .